Best of 2022: GOP’s identity crisis leading into 2024
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John Solomon
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🗓️ 28 December 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
This episode looks at the identity crisis of the Republican Party leading into the 2024 election, and the surprising bipartisan issues over the past year. First flashback is to December 7th, Ambassador John Bolton on his potential 2024 Presidential run to stop former President Donald Trump, saying “if others aren't going to do it, I'm prepared to do it.” Second flashback is to July 28th, with Georgia Congressman Austin Scott who backed Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to fly to Taiwan after pushback from the Chinese communist government. Saying, “China does not get to tell the Speaker of the United States's House of Representatives, where they can and cannot fly unless, it is inside the territory of Communist China.” Commenting, the United States “does not have to have permission from China to go anywhere else, and the fact that they think we do, so simply tells you how aggressive they are with regard to their attempt to manipulate and dominate the world."
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| 0:00.0 | Hello America and Happy Wednesday. We've got a great show for you. This week will be a |
| 0:11.8 | best of the John Solomon Reports podcast from this year. Hope you enjoy some of our favorite |
| 0:17.0 | hand-picked interviews. We'll be right back at Fairly Hearing from our great partner |
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| 0:29.0 | Our right folks, welcome back to the commercial break. Our next guest, one of the brightest |
| 0:32.7 | minds in all of the foreign policy and security world. One of the most respected players |
| 0:37.1 | in that space for a very long time former UN Ambassador, former National Security Advisor, |
| 0:42.1 | John Bolton, Mr. Ambassador. Good to have you back on the show. |
| 0:45.1 | Glad to be back with you. |
| 0:46.6 | A lot to talk about, but I want to start with some personal news on your front. There are |
| 0:51.1 | some strong indications in the comments you made that you're thinking of running in 2024. |
| 0:55.7 | Tell us, one, is that true, and two, what are the factors that will go into your ultimately |
| 0:59.6 | deciding to run? |
| 1:00.6 | Right. Well, I was stunned really by former President Trump's comments about terminating |
| 1:07.5 | the Constitution over the past weekend, but I was also surprised and worried at the absence |
| 1:15.3 | of real repudiation of the view that the Constitution can be terminated by Republican leaders. |
| 1:23.0 | And especially the people who have been mentioned as potential candidates for our 2024 presidential |
| 1:30.5 | nomination. And so I tweeted a little bit about it. And then the more I thought about it, |
| 1:36.0 | the more I worried, both from a principled point of view that you can't have a party leader |
| 1:41.8 | who doesn't accept the Constitution, but also from the point of view of practical politics. |
| 1:46.7 | And this comment by Trump is like a time bomb that every Republican candidate will be |
| 1:54.8 | carrying around in this election cycle unless we repudiate it. So my point is if others |
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